Friday, October 22, 2010

perfect....

i've been up to my eyeballs in work.which is a very good thing.the only bad thing about it is that i had to cancelout on a day trip with josh.

he ended up gettin' pretty busy himself, so weagreed it worked out fine. BUT we also agreed thatwe should AT LEAST get in a good walk in the woodsin the morning.

so this morning i drove over to josh's and we walkeddown to the river together.we walked down to the river together.

do you know how cool that is???

first of all that i have a son who lives by a park.that i have a son who WANTS to take a walk with me.and that there's a river to walk to!

we found a bench and sat lookin' at the river andtalking and i felt like i was savoring the mostdecadent piece of chocolate you could ever taste.it was an absolutely delicious time.

i told him with all the work i had to do it feltextra good. like a 'hookie moment.' and that addedto the deliciousness of it all.

driving home i thought of how lucky i was to grabthat time with him.

and then i thought of something josh had told merecently about 'being lucky.'

he said that it was all in how you looked at things.if you were in a bank when it was getting robbed andyou got shot in the arm....would you be lucky thatit was just your arm and you were really okay? or wouldyou be unlucky that you were in the bank and got shot???

think about it. i think it's a great question!

i was thinking that i'd feel lucky....that i came out ofit okay.but you know, it's one of those things you don't reallyknow til it happens. which you hope it doesn't happen~!

and while much less extreme, i looked at today andthought how lucky i was. cause i got an hour walk inwith josh to the river. i didn't think of how we hadto cancel the day trip.

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Yes, indeed, it IS all in how you look at it.I was talking to one of my fellow actors (ooooo that feels so good to say that!) who told me that she doesn't like it when so and so performs cuz she's really a professional and makes us look bad. I was in the show last yr with this professional and I thought she made us all look great! Kind of raised the bar for all of us. So, lucky? Yes, it's how you look at it. And if you look with eyes of faith, I bet we're all lucky!Denise

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